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AOL on podcasts: where it advertises, what it's offering listeners, and what hosts say about it when they're not being paid.
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“So when I was working for AOL, we used to buy many small startups such as Ang Gadget and Autoblog and when we buy those startups is an exit for that startup and basically the entire team leaves and I was left to maintain that software. What a nightmare.”
Recounted as a nightmare experience where team members left after acquisitions, leaving software maintenance problems.
▶ Hear it“Uh AOL Steve K said I'm sitting on a bag of [ __ ] supposedly worth 150 billion. I know I'll talk Time Warner shareholders and employees into giving me half of their company.”
Referenced as another failed acquisition in Time Warner's history of poor merger decisions.
▶ Hear it“uh 300 times revenue. And there were all kinds of headlines at the time. AOL is the stupidest company in the world for buying 95 from Jcal.”
The speaker references headlines calling AOL 'the stupidest company in the world' for a particular acquisition.
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